Relational Database Job Trends in Berkshire

Relational Database
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 75 102
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 +32
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 36 53 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.81% 3.18% 1.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.09% 12.90% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 14
10th Percentile - £40,434 £44,420
25th Percentile £28,000 £43,447 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £57,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year -28.07% -22.71% +44.68%
75th Percentile £50,688 £67,813 £83,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £69,875 £90,875
South East median annual salary £41,000 £51,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -6.82% -

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 275 411 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.85% 24.68% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 96 215 263
10th Percentile £41,000 £47,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £97,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Berkshire over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Berkshire

Relational Database
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 10 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +6 23 £57,500 -8.00% 7
Hungerford - 10 £34,500 -
Windsor - 2 £45,500 -
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (16.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) AWS
2 17 (47.22%) Amazon ECS
2 17 (47.22%) Amazon EKS
2 17 (47.22%) Serverless
3 11 (30.56%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (27.78%) SaaS
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 6 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (11.11%) Azure
7 2 (5.56%) GCP
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) dbt
8 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (52.78%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (30.56%) RDBMS
3 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.56%) Metadata
4 2 (5.56%) MySQL
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.78%) Looker
5 1 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (47.22%) Jenkins
2 12 (33.33%) JUnit
3 11 (30.56%) JMeter
3 11 (30.56%) Mockito
4 8 (22.22%) Git
5 3 (8.33%) Cucumber
5 3 (8.33%) Postman
5 3 (8.33%) Selenium
5 3 (8.33%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 10 (27.78%) Retail
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Finance
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Developer
2 17 (47.22%) Java Developer
3 15 (41.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 14 (38.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (30.56%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Analyst
6 5 (13.89%) Lead
6 5 (13.89%) Support Analyst
6 5 (13.89%) Support Team Leader
6 5 (13.89%) Team Leader
6 5 (13.89%) Technical Leader
6 5 (13.89%) Technical Support
6 5 (13.89%) Technical Support Team Leader
6 5 (13.89%) Technical Team Leader
7 3 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) QA Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (50.00%) Spring
2 17 (47.22%) REST
2 17 (47.22%) Spring Boot
3 16 (44.44%) Web Services
4 11 (30.56%) ActiveMQ
4 11 (30.56%) Apache Camel
4 11 (30.56%) Hibernate
4 11 (30.56%) HTML
4 11 (30.56%) jQuery
4 11 (30.56%) JSON
4 11 (30.56%) WireMock
4 11 (30.56%) XML
5 7 (19.44%) Node.js
5 7 (19.44%) React
6 6 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (16.67%) Kafka
6 6 (16.67%) Mustache
7 3 (8.33%) pytest
7 3 (8.33%) SOAP
8 1 (2.78%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 17 (47.22%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (27.78%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Agile
1 19 (52.78%) CI/CD
2 17 (47.22%) Microservices
2 17 (47.22%) SDLC
2 17 (47.22%) TDD
3 16 (44.44%) Full-Stack Development
4 14 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (30.56%) BDD
5 11 (30.56%) Process Management
5 11 (30.56%) Workflow
6 10 (27.78%) Client Onboarding
7 6 (16.67%) Scrum
8 5 (13.89%) Case Management
8 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
8 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.11%) Analytics
9 4 (11.11%) ETL
9 4 (11.11%) Test Automation
10 3 (8.33%) Data Management
10 3 (8.33%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 21 (58.33%) Java
2 18 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (44.44%) Python
4 15 (41.67%) SQL
5 11 (30.56%) Shell Script
6 3 (8.33%) Go
6 3 (8.33%) PHP
7 2 (5.56%) R
8 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) CISSP
3 2 (5.56%) MCSE
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.56%) OCP
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (47.22%) Kubernetes
2 11 (30.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Dynatrace
1 11 (30.56%) Splunk
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.78%) Informatica